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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781018203321

Autore

Löwy Ilana <1948->

Titolo

Preventive strikes [[electronic resource] ] : women, precancer, and prophylactic surgery / / Ilana Löwy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8018-9869-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Disciplina

616.99/4071

Soggetti

Cancer in women - Surgery - Social aspects

Precancerous conditions - Surgery - Social aspects

Breast - Cancer - Surgery - Social aspects

Ovaries - Cancer - Surgery - Social aspects

Social medicine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Biopsy -- Classifications -- Borderline lesions -- In situ cancers -- The origins of screening -- The generalization of screening -- Heredity -- New surgical radicalism.